Developing a social memory complex

[Anders]

Is there any truth to the idea that the blood is where spirit enters our body? I got the idea from Rudolf Steiner who said something similar and that blood is related to the sun. Yes, I believe there is truth to it. Even on a biological level, for example fear is a result of the fight-or-flight response being activated, which in turn means that chemicals such as stress hormones are released into the blood. And those chemicals come from glands in the body who themselves have been programmed through other chemicals in the blood.

And the glands Steiner said, are related to Venus. So that's a sun-to-Venus connection, consistent with what Gigi Young has said. And I think Alice Bailey said, among with others, that it's actually spirit that informs matter, rather than the other way around as is believed still today in mainstream science and medicine. One (or the) esoteric perspective is that the physical body, including the blood and the glands, is a result of spirit.

But then what about chemicals such as medicines and other substances which affect the body? One illustration that came to me is to think of the physical body as the hands of a clock. If the clock hands are manipulated through external force, it will change the behavior of the clock, similar to how chemicals ingested from an external source can for instance alter how our brain functions. In this analogy spirit represents the mechanics of the clock and the clock hands represent physical reality.